Paper bag with flap providing ticket retainer



July 5, 1955 G. w. POPPE PAPER BAG WITH FLAP PROVIDING TICKET RETAINERFiled April 29, 1952 INVENTOR. GEORGE W. PoPPE MW ATTORNEYS.

United Patent PAPER BAG FLAP PRGVIDING TICKET RETAINER George W. Poppa,Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Equitable Paper Bag Co. ind, Long IsiandCity, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application April 29, 1952,Serial No. 284,964

1 Claim. (Cl. 229-70) This invention relates to a paper bag adapted tobe used under conditions requiring the attachment of a ticket,memorandum slip or the like to the bag. Usually a piece of papercarrying the data is folded into the form of a strip and it isconventionally attached to the bag by the use of a common pin which isconsidered disadvantageous in many instances.

One of the objects is to provide a paper bag which ma be made asinexpensively as a conventional paper bag yet which will provideinherently for the attachment of the ticket to the bag. Another objectis to provide a bag having a mouth closing flap and, without materiallyincreasing the conventional cost of making the bag, with the flapprovided with an arrangement for retaining the ticket.

A specific example of the invention is illustrated by the accompanyingdrawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the bag;

Fig. 2 is a back view, this view showing only the upper portion of thebag;

Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the line 33 in Fig. l; and

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 44 in Fig. 1.

The illustrated paper bag has a front wall 1 and a back wall 2, thesewalls being mutually opposed and defining a flat mouth through whichmerchandise and the like may be placed in the bag. A fiap 3 extends fromthe back wall 2 and is foldable down over the front wall 1 to close themouth.

This flap has laterally spaced longitudinally extending slits 4 formedtherethrough. Both the bag walls and flap have lines of severancedefining cooperative flap locking means 5. This locking means is formedby the lines of severance through the flap and bag walls being arrangedto define shouldered tongues, which are the means 5, having foldablebases 6 along which the lines of severance partly extend from each endso that the tongues are actually shouldered tongues. The tongues taperfrom the bases 6, being of trapezoidal shapes with the bases the widestparts, and the tongues are arranged on the flap and bag wallsrespectively so that when the flap is folded closed its tongue pointsoppositely to the bag pointing directions of the wall tongues.

All of the tongues register mutually when the bag flap is closed. Priorto use of the bag the tongues lie flush with their respective parts,this being prior to folding of the tongues. Also prior to use the flap 3normally extends straight away from the bag Wall 2.

As shown by Fig. l the slits 4 are parallel to each other and to theside edges of the bag, and they are relatively short and are positionedclose to the fold lines of the bag flap. The tongues are all arrangedbelow transverse alignment with the slits. In other words, a trans-2,712,410 Fatented July 5, 1955 verse or horizontal line touching thebottoms of the slits is slightly above the upper levels of the varioustongues, although it is conceivable that this alignment may be shiftedsomewhat without affecting the use of the bag.

In use the merchandise is thrust through the mouth of the bag and theflap 3 is folded closed as shown by the drawings. Either before or afterfolding the flap the ticket strip 7 has its ends folded in the samedirections to form legs and these legs are thrust through the slits 4 sothat when the flap is folded the leg ends are locked between the insideof the flap and the outside of the wall 1. Preferably the tongues arethen pushed from the front of the bag towards its back wall 2 so thatthe tongues formed by the flap pass through the openings resulting fromdisplacement of all of the tongues, with their shouldered bases snappingbehind the wall 2 because of the narrower dimensions of the bag wallopenings at their tops. Then by pushing the remaining tongues, formed bythe walls from the back of the bag toward the front wall 1, theseremaining tongues correspondingly snap over the front of the flap 3 asshown by Fig. 1. Thus the flap 3 is locked shut or closed against theface or front wall 1 of the bag.

It is obvious from the above that the ticket or other strip 7 is firmlyanchored and retained to the flap of the bag. At the same time, noadditional parts have been added to What may be an otherwiseconventional bag construction. All that is necessary is to provide anautomatic bag making machine with an appropriate die cutting roll forcutting the slits 4 and the lines of severance defining the tongues 5.Ordinarily this will be done to the bag web prior to tubing and atappropriate locations so that the finished bag is as shown anddescribed. Thus the stated objectives of the invention are achieved.

I claim:

A paper bag including opposed walls defining a mouth, a flap extendingfrom one of said walls and folded down wardly and superimposed on theoutside of the other of said walls to close said month, said flap havinga plurality of transversely interspaced longitudinally extending linesof severance formed therethrough, a ticket spanning transversely betweensaid lines on the outside of said flap and having end portions extendedthrough said lines and reversely folded at said lines so as to extendtowards each other between said flap and sad wall on which it issuperimposed, and means for locking said flap flatly against said wallon which it is superimposed so as to restrain said tickets end portionsfrom unfolding and thus lock said ticket to said flap, said lines ofseverance being spaced apart transversely for an extended distance sothat an extended portion of said ticket spans therebetween where it isexposed for visual examination, said locking means being spaced fromsaid lines and being offset from said ticket.

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